2 Steps Up; 1 Step Back

Day 9:  31.8 to go (down 8 lbs)
Day 10:  34 to go (down 5.8 lbs)

Last night I ventured out with friends for Italian food.  I was VERY pleasantly surprised that they had several things on the menu that work with my no meat, no dairy, no gluten, no refined sugar self.  So I had their fresh roasted corn & cherry tomato salad (no dressing on it, and it was DELICIOUS) and their rice flour pasta with cherry tomatoes adn calamata olives.  Honestly, it was fabulous.

So the good news is that I stayed on plan; the bad news was the scale this morning -- by which I completely mortified.  I think there were 3 things working against me:  we ate dinner sometime close to 9:30 or 10:00pm (I never eat that late); the main course while on plan was chock full o' salt; and I ended up getting only about 4.5 hours of sleep.  I fully suspect that tomorrow the scale will show that I'm back down again.

But just in case, I've spent today trying to correct course. 

I had oatmeal with sliced almonds for breakfast, and a banana.
After meeting with my boss for my 1:1 meeting, I dropped my car off for service and walked home (1.5 miles).

For lunch I had a cup of leftover brown rice and 2 cups of leftover  vegetable stew from the weekend.
I waled back to the service place this afternoon (1.5 miles) to pick up my car, and drove it straight to the gym for 35 minutes of cardio.  It must have worked, because I came home completely drenched. 

For dinner, I'm going to fire up the grill again and roast a bunch of veggies that I picked up this week:  white corn, yams, red & yellow peppers, and whatever else is in there.  I'm finding that if I cook up a lot -- and make a giant pot of brown rice, I eat it pretty consistently throughout the week and don't have to worry about it later. 

Fingers crossed that tomorrow the scale heads down again.